Word: daughterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same time picking up his fourth honorary doctorate in ten days (the others were from Arizona State University, Hamilton College, Brigham Young University). He debated on television with New York's liberal Republican Senator Jacob Javits, was a great hit at a glittery Washington debut party for the daughter of former State Department Protocol Chief Wiley Buchanan. And he gave a typical two-fisted, newsmaking speech to the editors of United Press International...
...money was in a trust fund for his daughter Diana-a fund which Banker Davis started with a $4,000 investment when she was born 22 years ago. (Another $3,800,000 fund is in trust for Son Shelby, 24.) Diana, who has had full legal right to the money since the age of 20, not only refused to sign over her trust to Princeton but never even showed up at the bank. Said she: "He's just doing all this for his own glory...
...descendant of John Alden, and a man who dotes on his purebred lines, Banker Davis was so furious that he ordered his public relations firm to deluge New York newspapers with a five-page release denouncing his daughter and mourning the loss to Princeton. Diana already has "an assured $30,000-a-year income for life and a $100,000 cash gift," said Davis. He could "only attribute her unreasonable selfishness to the unrealistic materialism prevalent among American youth of today." When he some day asks Son Shelby to relinquish his own trust, added Davis, who knows a thing...
...from hard payers. Charlie's son Hugh enters the priesthood, possibly in disgust at his father's tactics, but comes to hate his parishioners as much as he does his father, and dies of a hemorrhaging ulcer. Another son cravenly sponges off the old man. The eldest daughter becomes Charlie's spinster slave, while a spunkier daughter, Helen, marries a pompous doctor just to escape from the house...
...Women (in Italian). Mother (Sophia Loren) and daughter (Eleonora Brown), ably aided by Jean-Paul Belmondo, prove that in World War II Italy, only those who suffer can love...